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What’s filling up tho? People are going to get sick from covid and need to go to the hospital. That’s never going to change.
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If you relax restrictions, cases will go up. Forever. Covid is a fact of life. Hey, public health official, if you don’t want cases to go up, don’t relax restrictions. The more restrictions go back and forth, the less serious people will take them.
So, how did you behave differently in 2018 to save the hospitals?
Or in 2014?
Or 2013?
I sincerely hope masks and some level of distancing (especially when sick) stick around during flu seasons.
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They won’t
You are probably right.
They will, but they’ll do about as much good as they’ve done in the past 103 flu seasons.
The flu kills, particularly the old and the young, and ought to be taken far more seriously than it is. So I have always treated it seriously by getting myself and my kids vaccinated every fall, not letting my kids be around others when they are sick, and, going forward, I’ll be wearing a mask in a lot more situations.
I would be fine with treating covid more like the flu once my kids are able to get vaccinated and once virtually every person has the opportunity to fight this (deadlier-than-the-flu) disease.
But my kids don’t have that immunity and while some people are willing to offer up our children as sacrificial lambs for normalcy, I’m not one of them. No kids should have to die from this.
Most of us have built up some immunity to the flu because of prior exposures, society’s exposures, and vaccination. I expect covid will become like that over time. But give people a chance first before declaring this deadly disease with unknown long-term side effects so last year.
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I get your sentiment, and I don’t disagree with it, but, Covid is fairly low risk for kids, lower risk than flu for sure.
I hope we can get a vaccine approved for kids soon.
ETA to be clear Covid is much higher risk than flu for adults, death rate is easily 10x as high, so memes comparing the two are disingenuous at best.
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I have no idea what the risk for MY kids is, though. And I’m not willing to find out when I don’t have to. They’ll get vaccinated soon enough, and will wear masks in the meantime.
Some children will get covid and die from it. It’s not something that has to happen.
Which flu seasons was mask-wearing common in the United States?
I hope we start treating interior air with UV. That seems to kill both flu and covid-19 viruses. It’s not terribly expensive to add UV light to your ventilation system. (Assuming you have a ventilation system. Adding one isn’t cheap.)
I think we could greatly improve the safety of restaurants, for instance, if air was pumped to, for instance, a chamber under a false ceiling and irradiated with UV
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1918, for one. I’m not really aware of any others, but I may be too young to remember people trying it unsuccessfully again.
Have you ever wondered why mask wearing has not been common anywhere in the western world prior to 2020?
Oh, I have my theories.
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Because culturally bootstrappers are horrified at appearing as sick/weak/anything short of invincible. Plus no one else is their problem.
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because wearing a mask is uncomfortable and sucks. prior to 2020, I thought it was weird. beginning of 2020, I still thought people who wore masks were weird, until around april.
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What changed in April?
PS. You forgot the most important reason: cloth masks don’t stop respiratory virus aerosols.
Cuomo told me I had to wear a mask in April last year and it became more normal.
Cuomo also said daddy fan’s nursing home had to accept covid-positive patients, so… 